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Letter: Parker’s column on Trump’s tweets is really about the threat to traditional media

This letter is neither in support or condemnation of President Trump. The future will reveal his successes or failures soon enough. Rather it's my opinion of Kathleen Parker's ulterior motive, for her recent Donald Trump vs. John Lewis column.

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Letter: Parker’s column on Trump’s tweets is really about the threat to traditional media

This letter is neither in support or condemnation of President Trump. The future will reveal his successes or failures soon enough. Rather it's my opinion of Kathleen Parker's ulterior motive, for her recent Donald Trump vs. John Lewis column.

I believe as you pointed out, that John Lewis is an American hero. For those of us who lived through the 1960s, recognition of that fact was part of our lives. Oprah Winfrey’s Martin Luther King movie helped to enlighten a younger generation about the heroic actions of a young John Lewis.

However there is a certain irony that the Hollywood world of Meryl Streep failed to award even one Oscar in recognition of that movie. So let’s put to rest the moral high ground that Kathleen Parker is lecturing from.
The real truth is that in the mortal world, even heroes such as John Lewis are accountable for their words and actions. He called upon boycotting and questioning the legitimacy of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.

As a result, instead of turning the other cheek in a Biblical fashion, Trump responded by defending himself. So Parker is calling President Trump wrong to defend his legitimacy.

Now let’s get to the real reason she wrote this column. It comes sneaking up at the end – imagining Trump saying, . “With this my very last tweet … .” The phenomenon of tweeting, in her eyes, is a threat to her professional viability.

She tries to present President Trump as some out-of-control Neanderthal. Yet she knows as well as I that Donald Trump has transformed the use of tweeting to displace the traditional news sources in importance.

So the basis behind the entire pseudo-protection of an American treasure is really an attempt to protect her own traditional form of communication.
Peter Degen, Port St. Lucie

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